Baby Quote by Clive Bell

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

— Tom McClintock

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

— Alfred North Whitehead

For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although…

— Gwynne Dyer

In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have both sides…

— Robert De Niro

With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the…

— Charles Darwin

Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law .…

— Joseph Story

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

— Sally Quinn

War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of…

— Gwynne Dyer

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

— Virginia Woolf

There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

— Lee Hsien Loong

I can't think of a subject that is taboo for me, unless it's one I simply don't know anything about.

— Chris Crutcher

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

— Amy Bloom